The Megyn Kelly Show - Will Ghislaine Maxwell Speak Publicly, Next Russiagate Docs, Mamdani's Wedding Bash： AM Update 7⧸28

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00:00:33.080 Good morning, everyone. I'm Megan Kelly.

00:00:35.540 It's Monday, July 28th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.

00:00:40.100 I think Galen did a wonderful job.

00:00:41.940 She was asked maybe about 100 different people.

00:00:44.580 She answered questions about everybody.

00:00:46.940 Will Galen talk?

00:00:48.520 Jeffrey Epstein Associate Galen Maxwell meets with the DOJ as questions surface

00:00:53.200 about a potential pardon in exchange for further cooperation.

00:00:57.220 What that intelligence shows is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan,

00:01:01.840 but part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier.

00:01:08.660 CIA Director John Ratcliffe teases that more declassified documents relating to

00:01:13.840 how the 2016 Russian interference narrative took off are on the way,

00:01:18.280 this time implicating Hillary Clinton.

00:01:20.920 And New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist,

00:01:26.180 throws an elaborate wedding bash overseas with military-style security,

00:01:30.780 raising eyebrows and accusations of hypocrisy.

00:01:33.780 All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM Update.

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00:02:46.420 Convicted Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell

00:02:49.300 sitting with the DOJ for a two-day interview late last week,

00:02:53.200 sharing knowledge with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche

00:02:55.880 about other potential uncharged Epstein associates.

00:02:59.820 Maxwell's attorney, David Oscar Marcus,

00:03:01.640 sharing some details of the meeting with reporters on Friday.

00:03:05.440 I think Glenn did a wonderful job.

00:03:07.260 She literally answered every question.

00:03:09.560 She didn't say, you know what, don't ask me that.

00:03:11.820 I'm not going to talk about this person.

00:03:13.660 She was asked maybe about a hundred different people.

00:03:17.100 She answered questions about everybody,

00:03:18.960 and she didn't hold anything back.

00:03:21.740 Maxwell currently serving a 20-year prison sentence

00:03:24.640 for her role in Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse

00:03:27.360 and her own misconduct is currently appealing her conviction.

00:03:31.860 ABC News reporting Maxwell answered questions for about nine hours

00:03:35.320 after being granted a limited form of immunity for her cooperation.

00:03:39.840 Speculation mounting as to whether Maxwell

00:03:41.480 will trade further cooperation for clemency.

00:03:44.420 On Friday morning, President Trump brushing off the question.

00:03:47.640 Would you consider a pardon or a commutation for Heelan-Maxwell?

00:03:51.840 It's something I haven't thought about.

00:03:54.240 It's really something I'm allowed to do,

00:03:56.940 but it's something I have not thought about.

00:03:59.500 Maxwell's attorney saying the prospect of a pardon

00:04:01.940 has not yet been raised,

00:04:03.520 while they consider potentially testifying before Congress next month.

00:04:07.180 Of course, everybody knows

00:04:08.740 Ms. Maxwell would welcome any relief.

00:04:11.920 She's been in very difficult conditions for five years.

00:04:16.980 There have been no asks and no promises,

00:04:19.220 and nothing like that has been made.

00:04:21.680 We haven't spoken to the president or anybody about a pardon just yet.

00:04:26.660 And, you know, listen,

00:04:28.600 the president this morning said he had the power to do so.

00:04:31.620 We hope he exercises that power in the right and just way.

00:04:34.560 Congress has subpoenaed her to testify.

00:04:36.740 We have to make a decision about whether she will do that or not.

00:04:39.280 And that's been scheduled for the week of August 11th,

00:04:42.620 and we haven't gotten back to them yet on whether we'll do that.

00:04:46.920 And also in the House, on Sunday,

00:04:49.200 House Speaker Mike Johnson managing calls from within-house ranks

00:04:52.380 to take further action in relation to the Epstein files,

00:04:55.800 sharing his stance on any potential pardon for Maxwell.

00:04:59.180 Well, I mean, obviously that's a decision of the president.

00:05:01.940 He said he had not adequately considered that.

00:05:04.060 I won't get in front of him.

00:05:05.220 That's not my lane.

00:05:06.180 And if you're asking my opinion, I think 20 years was a pittance.

00:05:09.620 I think she should have a life sentence at least. 1.00

00:05:12.480 I mean, think of all these unspeakable crimes.

00:05:14.520 And as you noted earlier, probably 1,000 victims.

00:05:17.760 I mean, you know, this is, it's hard to put into words how evil this was

00:05:22.460 and that she orchestrated it and was a big part of it,

00:05:26.060 at least under the criminal sanction, I think is an unforgivable thing.

00:05:29.960 So, again, not my decision, but I have great pause about that as any reasonable person would.

00:05:36.400 Various House factions currently pursuing multiple avenues in obtaining the Epstein files from the DOJ.

00:05:42.180 A House Oversight Subcommittee last week approving a subpoena requesting the files,

00:05:46.780 though Chairman Comer has yet to take further action in actually issuing that subpoena.

00:05:52.000 A source close to the committee telling us at AM Update

00:05:54.800 that details on the scope of the subpoena will soon be released.

00:05:58.360 Republican Congressman Thomas Massey of Kentucky and Democrat Congressman Roe Khanna of California

00:06:04.240 spearheading a bipartisan effort to force a vote legally compelling the DOJ

00:06:09.100 to release the entirety of the Epstein files,

00:06:12.300 with redactions protecting victims' information and removing child sexual abuse material.

00:06:17.520 Speaker Johnson Sunday on NBC saying the Massey-Kanna discharge petition is flawed.

00:06:22.660 Because you have to protect innocent people's names and reputations

00:06:27.080 whose names might be, as you noted at the outset of the program, intertwined into all these files.

00:06:31.820 The Massey and Khanna discharge petition would require the DOJ and FBI to release information

00:06:36.780 that they know is false, that is based on lies and rumors,

00:06:40.540 and was not even credible enough to be entered into the court proceedings.

00:06:44.740 And that would be a dangerous thing.

00:06:46.580 Our main concern here, though, is the protection of the innocent victims.

00:06:50.420 I mean, these are minors in many cases who are subjected to unspeakable crimes, abject evil.

00:06:56.780 They've already suffered great harm.

00:06:58.400 We do not need their names being unmasked.

00:07:01.620 The Massey and the Khanna discharge petition does not have adequate protections.

00:07:06.340 For example, in the way that it was drafted,

00:07:08.840 they cite that they don't want child abuse, sex abuse information uncovered,

00:07:13.800 but they cite the wrong provision of the federal code, and so it makes it unworkable.

00:07:19.620 It requires the DOJ to release grand jury testimony.

00:07:22.880 They are prohibited by law from doing so.

00:07:25.000 So it is not the right approach.

00:07:27.340 Congressman Khanna Sunday on NBC downplaying those concerns.

00:07:31.640 Now, there's a reason the Justice Department usually doesn't release information

00:07:35.220 before charging people, and I understand the sensitivity of that.

00:07:39.280 And I think the American people are fair.

00:07:40.900 They're going to be able to distinguish between someone who got a grant from

00:07:44.480 Jeffrey Epstein to do cancer research

00:07:46.680 versus rich and powerful men who were abusing underage girls.

00:07:51.180 Congressman Massey and Khanna telling NBC

00:07:53.460 they believe they will have the support needed to bring the vote following this August recess.

00:07:58.740 I think when we get back, we can get the signatures required to force this to the floor.

00:08:03.260 Speaker Mike Johnson should do the right thing and just bring it to the floor

00:08:06.220 and not require us to force it.

00:08:08.060 Congressman Khanna, I'm out of time, but yes or no, will it pass?

00:08:10.320 It will pass.

00:08:13.320 Calls for accountability growing amid bombshell declassifications by Director of National

00:08:18.620 Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard over the past several weeks.

00:08:22.080 A newly declassified 2020 House Intelligence Committee report reigniting scrutiny of the

00:08:27.880 Obama administration's role in shaping the Russian interference narrative that dominated

00:08:33.100 the first Trump administration.

00:08:34.460 DNI gabbard last week releasing the long-buried report finding top intel officials used flawed

00:08:41.180 and selectively filtered intel to construct the President Obama-directed 2017 Intelligence

00:08:48.080 Community Assessment, or ICA.

00:08:50.540 That report famously, and perhaps infamously, claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin,

00:08:56.460 quote, aspired to help then-candidate Trump win the presidency in 2016.

00:09:02.320 Sunday on Fox News, CIA Director John Ratcliffe saying the agency is working to declassify

00:09:08.100 more documents that will reveal cooperation between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the

00:09:13.300 Obama administration's FBI to boost the bogus Steele dossier.

00:09:17.640 Part of what came out last week was about how John Brennan, Clapper, Comey, they all pushed

00:09:23.000 the known fake Steele dossier into intelligence community assessments and as the basis for

00:09:28.140 Crossfire Hurricane and all that.

00:09:29.820 But what hasn't come out yet and what's going to come out is the underlying intelligence that

00:09:34.880 I have spent the last few months making recommendations about final declassification and sent that to

00:09:40.880 the Department of Justice that will come out in the John Durham report classified annex.

00:09:46.020 And what that intelligence shows, Maria, is that part of this was a Hillary Clinton plan, but

00:09:51.320 part of it was an FBI plan to be an accelerant to that fake Steele dossier, to those fake Russia

00:09:59.200 collusion claims by pouring oil on the fire, by amplifying the lie and bearing the truth of

00:10:05.960 what Hillary Clinton was up to.

00:10:09.140 These revelations renewing calls for accountability from Trump allies, with demands to investigate

00:10:14.600 and prosecute those involved for what DNI Gabbard calls a, quote, years-long coup against

00:10:20.100 President Trump.

00:10:21.480 But questions remain about what, if anything, can still be prosecuted given the statute of

00:10:26.540 limitations on the potential crimes.

00:10:28.880 Director Ratcliffe saying there's still time.

00:10:31.800 John Brennan testified to John Durham in August of 2020.

00:10:35.600 He also testified to the House Oversight Committee in 2022.

00:10:39.420 Hillary Clinton testified before John Durham under oath in 2022.

00:10:43.940 James Comey testified before the Senate Committee in September 2020.

00:10:47.920 All of that's within the last five years.

00:10:50.760 And much of that testimony is, frankly, completely inconsistent with what our underlying intelligence

00:10:56.860 that is about to be declassified in the Durham annex, what that reflects.

00:11:01.280 And so, you know, Pam Bondi does have a strike force. 1.00

00:11:05.580 It is a different Department of Justice, a different FBI, and an opportunity to look at

00:11:10.540 how these people really did conspire to run a hoax, a fraud on the American people and against

00:11:17.700 Donald Trump's presidency.

00:11:19.520 And so coming forward, we understand that they did this, but now we need to understand how

00:11:24.560 they did this.

00:11:25.360 Former head of the House Intel Committee, Devin Nunes, who ordered the 2020 Intel report

00:11:30.380 analyzing the ICA, on Sunday telling Fox News there is no statute of limitations on conspiracy.

00:11:37.280 All of these hoaxes that happened were done by the same people in many cases, and one led

00:11:43.080 to the other.

00:11:43.740 So you had Hillary starts the collusion hoax. 1.00

00:11:47.540 Obama continues the collusion hoax.

00:11:50.300 Mueller continues the collusion hoax.

00:11:52.400 I mean, Mueller and that team, that team of witch hunters should also be looked at everything

00:11:56.680 that they did.

00:11:57.620 Then when Mueller completely flames out, why?

00:12:00.400 Because there was no intelligence that tied Trump to Russia.

00:12:03.200 Then what happens?

00:12:04.500 We get this fake whistleblower from inside the agencies that says that Trump's doing something

00:12:09.720 weird with Ukraine. 1.00

00:12:11.980 And so you end up with that.

00:12:13.800 And then you get to the Hunter Biden laptop.

00:12:16.100 And then you get to the raid at Mar-a-Lago.

00:12:17.780 All of that, all of that is happening with, with basically the same two dozen people and

00:12:24.180 media operatives that are all involved in perpetuating, perpetuating these hoaxes.

00:12:30.200 Coming up, defund for thee, security for me, New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani,

00:12:36.880 who previously called for defunding the police, raises eyebrows with a luxurious wedding bash

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00:13:46.480 Far-left Socialist Democrat nominee for New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani taking a short break

00:13:52.740 from the campaign last week to celebrate his new marriage with friends and family in his

00:13:57.040 native Uganda.

00:13:58.440 The radical progressive appearing to try to get ahead of the story last week, posting this

00:14:03.100 video to social media.

00:14:04.300 And since you will undoubtedly read about this trip in the New York Post, inshallah on the

00:14:08.500 front page, here are a few of my humble suggestions for headlines.

00:14:11.580 MIA. 0.91

00:14:12.480 Mamdani in Africa.

00:14:14.280 Uganda missed me.

00:14:15.700 He's Kampala-leately crazy.

00:14:18.100 The Afra can't be serious. 1.00

00:14:20.020 Carl Kampala-neely investigates Mamdani.

00:14:22.860 Zoe running away.

00:14:24.260 The New York Post indeed reporting on the trip, discovering the candidate who previously called

00:14:29.180 for defunding the police, hosted a, quote, lavish, three-day affair at his family's ritzy, secluded

00:14:35.160 Ugandan compound, complete with masked security guards and a cell phone jamming system.

00:14:41.780 The property reportedly sitting in a wealthy neighborhood with homes easily valued at more

00:14:46.320 than a million dollars and at least one billionaire neighbor.

00:14:49.960 You know, the kind Mamdani says he doesn't believe should exist.

00:14:53.480 According to the Post, the Mamdani family, quote, sits on two acres of lush gardens, surrounded

00:14:59.840 by trees, has breathtaking panoramic views of Lake Victoria, and features at least three

00:15:06.080 security gates.

00:15:07.740 The report raising eyebrows given Mamdani's past support for abolishing private property

00:15:12.240 and defunding and dismantling the NYPD.

00:15:16.400 As a mayoral candidate, Mamdani somewhat softening that stance, focusing on other promises like

00:15:21.760 freezing the rent.

00:15:22.700 In terms of policing, Mamdani kind of backing off calls to defund, though proposing a Department

00:15:29.700 of Community Safety, he says, will be tasked with dispatching social workers to address nonviolent

00:15:36.280 crimes and problems with the mentally ill and homeless.

00:15:39.960 He apparently does not consider domestic violence to be, um, violent because those calls, too,

00:15:46.140 he wants handled by social workers.

00:15:48.980 Mamdani taking incoming for this trip.

00:15:51.120 From his former Democratic primary opponent, the disgraced former governor of New York,

00:15:55.540 Andrew Cuomo, who's now running as an independent in the mayoral race.

00:15:59.780 Cuomo's social media team posting a poll on X responding to the New York Post exclusive,

00:16:04.760 asking whether to call the hypocrisy champagne socialism or trust fund socialism.

00:16:10.160 And that'll do it for your AM update.

00:16:13.080 I'm Megan Kelly.

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Will Ghislaine Maxwell Speak Publicly, Next Russiagate Docs, Mamdani's Wedding Bash： AM Update 7⧸28

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